Bonkers World
Bonkers World is a comic site known for its organizational charts of big tech companies and jokes about software work.
What HN says
HN links it for the organizational charts comic, which one commenter says is still accurate for Microsoft, and notes its feed's last entry was Nov 2020.
Stats for nerds
96HN people shared it
28linked in comments
115story points
May 2026last shared
Top posts on HN
- 1Organizational Charts for Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Oracle and Google56 people · 30 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 2The life of a software engineer2 people · 27 points · first shared 2013 · 8 comments on HN
- 3About Yogurts1 person · 16 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 4Organizational Charts4 people · 13 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN
- 5Interesting Organizational charts3 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · Discussion on HN
- 6Google vs. Amazon compared [comic/pic]3 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
- 7Ask HN: How accurate is this org chart comic about the companies mentioned?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
- 8Marketing Styles2 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN
- 9Comic: Location-Based Compensation3 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
- 10Top Donors1 person · 2 points · first shared 2012 · Discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
- vibrunazoAug 2012
People have to stop thinking about which side is more fun to "cheer" to and start thinking about what's in your best interest as a consumer. Everyone copies everyone [1]. Apple copied a lot of features from Android [2] and improved upon them. Samsung copied a lot of stuff from Apple and improved them to levels Apple had never gone to before. [3] As the author of the article shows. Copying doesn't stop innovation. It has always been like this with any innovation. There's a reason Newton and Einstein said "I can only see so far because I'm standing in the shoulder of giants". Any innovation made by humans is inspired by hundreds of years of history.
For us as consumers, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day we get better products from this. We gain from innovation and competition. If Apple didn't copy Android, your iPhone would be worse. If Samsung didn't copy Apple, the best selling phone in the market would be worse. And every consumer would lose.
If Apple wins this. It would be bad for every smartphone user on the planet. Including iPhone users. If you love your phone and tech innovation. You should be hoping Samsung wins, even if you have an iPhone.
[1] http://www.bonkersworld.net/great-artists-steal/
[2] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/apple-copies-a-bunch-of-features-from-android-calls-it-ios5-updated/2295
[3] http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/15/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-review/
- keedaSep 2025
I'm curious to hear more about your take on why the culture change could be a mistake. From speaking to a couple of long-timers at Microsoft, while they didn't seem to have complaints under Ballmer, they did seem to welcome some aspects of Satya's culture change, specifically how it had become much more collaborative internally. To me, that seemed like a fix for the internal dynamics at MSFT depicted in that popular comic about Big Tech org-charts: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
- electrolyMay 2024
You have to understand that Windows comes from a separate division than .NET and they have no overlap. Microsoft isn't a cohesive company. .NET comes from the developer division (DevDiv) and UWP comes from the Windows division (now Server & Cloud). The Windows folks always hated .NET and the developer division has been lukewarm about UWP.
The Microsoft panel of this comic sums it up nicely: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
- wongarsuFeb 2023
If they don't whitelist and use the rate at which their own emails end as spam to improve their spam filter, that's great engineering culture.
If they don't whitelist and the emails just land in spam without anyone taking notice, that reminds me more of the well-known slightly satirical image of Microsoft's org chart [1]
1: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
- frou_dhJun 2019
I feel like I hit the sweet spot by only ever using WinForms, then getting out.
Their framework strife seems like a manifestation of their depiction in this classic: http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
- ta2234234242Mar 2025
There was that comic about org charts a decade ago:
https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
The reality is that the Microsoft style of organization is very prominent in the industry.